Friday, September 30, 2016

Today will be my last (at least for now) inspiration project for the La-La Land Crafts design team. I've been a part of this amazing team for almost 3 years and it was a huge honor and pleasure for me. I am grateful to Irina Blount and Sandie Dunne, as well the rest of the amazing ladies on the team for being supportive, fun and simply amazing. I will make a little break with Copic coloring now :)

This week's theme was "All Shapes and Sizes". I've created a treat box for Halloween with the following products from La-La Land Crafts:

Monday, September 26, 2016

I'm here today with the notebook which was created from scratch and embellished with the paper from the Graphic 45 Deluxe Collection "Steampunk Debutante".

For embellishing the cover and the dividers inside the notebook I used a lot of cut out elements. The flowers were all cut from the paper called "Fantasy Floral":

For the closure I used one of the hitch fasteners by Tim Holtz. The book was bound using the Buttonhole Stitch Binding (this is the tutorial which helped me while I was creating my book).

The book has 8 dividers, and each has more cut out elements from the paper, as well as a bit of stamping using the Graphic 45 Color Box Decades Inks, and die cut gears by Tim Holtz.

On the inside of the front and back covers there are side pockets for the notes, tags and other papers:

I have a video tutorial with all the measurements and explanations on how to make this book. The second part of the tutorial covers a detailed process of the cover embellishing. I share my way of layering multiple elements on the cover. I hope some of you will find it useful :)

The dies which I used on my card are from Tim Holtz, Fluffy Duffy, Scrap Man, La-La Land Crafts, Craft and You.

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Challenge runs Sep 15th - Oct 8th (Ends 11:55pm PST)
Theme: "Anything Goes"
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

I have been missing from the blog recently, the kids were ill one after another, and then I got either allergy or bronchitis (my doctor is still unsure what it is), which don't leave my until now, so finding the mood and energy for crafting has been a true challenge for me.

Anyway, I managed to create a card for an "Ahoy There" theme at La-La Land Crafts and am writing up the post now in order to share the card with you.